Free for OC\, Surfrid
er\, and Baykeeper members & children 10 and under.

@415PLUMBER’S #OB
_PLASTIC OBSESSION\n

“Aaron’s improbable odyss
ey began simply enough\, walking his dog at the beach. As he used his palm
to smooth over some sand to make a place to sit down and take a rest\, he
grazed over a buried hypodermic needle. He picked it up\, relieved to not
have been cut and looked around him – plastic garbage strewn all over. We
re there more? His place of peace and reflection suddenly felt dangerous.
He went home\, picked up a rake and headed back to clean up: straws\, chee
se spreaders\, tire caps\, toothbrushes\, bottle caps\, army men\, bubble
blowers\, shotgun shells. This was the moment that touched off his tireles
s\, solo campaign. This humble\, accidental activist is a man who cares de
eply about the coastline\, neatly sorting his finds into orderly buckets\,
baskets and drawers. Sometimes he’ll take select pieces from his collecti
on to create assemblages for friends and post to Instagram. Rather than fa
lling into a trap of despair over the constant flow of new waste washing u
p\, Aaron draws on irony\, optimism\, creativity and a penchant for findin
g small treasures (he’s particularly fond of the Army Men) to transform a
desperate environmental issue into his own personal story of triumph over
the day-to-day heaviness of life. Through this process\, one of the more w
ondrous facets of humanity emerges – the ability to transform a desperate
environmental problem into a narrative through action\, art\, and dedicati
on to a cause.” ~ IMDB.

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Stories of the Spill\n

This doc
umentary tells the story of the 1969 Santa Barbara\, California Oil Spill\
, the biggest environmental catastrophe at the time it occurred and how th
e citizens of the California Coast came together to pass Proposition 20\,
The California Coastal Protection Act.